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assigning
«No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
activities, assigning, deploy, deployed, farming, full time, gathering, maintenance, one-woman, One on One, PER, productive, raising, simultaneously, suburban, temple, tent, weaving
«If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| About:
Leadership,
Longing,
Motivation
| Keywords:
assign, assigning, assigns, build, collect, collects, drum, drummed, drumming, drum up, endless, immensity, Into the Woods, sea, sea a, ship, shipped, shipping, tasks, the Endless, The Sea, wood
«The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited; but this ... is wrong, for we cannot speak of infinite q»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
assigning, discuss, finite
«Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
apparatus, assign, assigning, assigns, coercion, dominating, external, ideology, machinery, namely, peculiar, role, rule by, terrorize, terrorizing, thanks, totalitarianism
«We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex»
«The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success but they labor haphazardly at whatever they are assigned, building up with one hand to tear down with the other. They do not grasp circumstances and change them into opportunities. They have no faculty for turning honest defeats into telling victories. With ability enough and ample time, the major ingredients of success, they are forever throwing back and forth an empty shuttle and the real web of their life is never woven.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
ample, assign, assigned, assigning, assigns, back and forth, back down, building up, change hands, consist, defeats, faculty, grand, grasp, hands down, hand down, haphazardly, ignominiously, ingredients, intelligent life, major, shuttle, tear, tearing down, tear down, telling, throwing, turning, turn down, victories, web, woven
«CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
addicted, adj, assign, assigning, assigns, carnivorous, devouring, heirs, timorous, vegetarian
«Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, and in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life...»